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(NewsNation) — A Black Hawk chopper and an American Airlines level collided wrong minutes of the chopper being instructed by aerial postulation power to "pass behind" the aircraft.
Flights are erstwhile again taking disconnected and landing astatine Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport arsenic things get backmost to mean amid an anything-but-normal situation.
Officials said 27 bodies were recovered from the jet, which was carrying 64 people, and 1 was pulled from the helicopter, which had 3 soldiers onboard. Crews fearfulness determination are nary survivors, which would marque it the deadliest U.S. aerial crash in astir 24 years.
The determination rider pitchy was carrying 64 people en way from Kansas earlier crashing into a chopper carrying 3 soldiers, sending some aircraft into the icy Potomac River adjacent Washington, D.C.
American Airlines level takes disconnected
Jan. 29, 6:39 p.m.: American Airlines Flight 5342 departed Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport successful Wichita, Kansas.
It is presently chartless erstwhile the chopper took disconnected arsenic portion of a grooming flight. According to the U.S. Army, the chopper was from Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
Air postulation power connection
Jan. 29, 8:47 p.m.: Air postulation controllers archer the Army chopper to "pass behind" the American Airlines plane.
Moment of the clang
Jan. 29, 8:48 p.m.: Flight 5342 collides with the chopper implicit the Potomac River.
As the clang occurred, determination was audio of the exigency recording with aerial postulation power wherever the relation reported the collision.
As of Thursday morning, at least 28 bodies had been recovered from the Potomac River. Crews fearfulness determination are nary survivors, which would marque it the deadliest U.S. aerial crash in astir 24 years.
A Blackhawk chopper flies debased implicit the trees supra a landing portion during an event. (Norbert Voskens/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Search for victims
Jan. 30, 7 a.m.: D.C. Fire and EMS Chief John A. Donnelly said during a quality league Thursday that he’s assured each of the bodies from the clang volition yet beryllium recovered.
Victims included Loudon County students, U.S. and Russian fig skaters and D.C.-area steamfitters, among others.
People who judge they person household members connected the flights and are looking for further accusation are asked to telephone 800-697-8215.
Reagan Airport shuts down, opens again Thursday
Jan. 30, 11 a.m.: The midair crash unopen down Reagan Airport until Thursday, with the archetypal formation departing astatine 11:01 a.m. section clip en way to Nashville.
